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Interesting article in the NY Times about the Columbia River Bar and the Coast Guard Motor National Lifeboat School. If you like to read about conditions you never want to see in your boat, here's another place for vicarious enjoyment of extreme danger...

The latest edition of Waggoner's has a picture of a C-Dory in a beautiful Inside Passage setting: https://waggonerguide.com/waggoner-flotilla-trips-update/ Anyone know whose boat it is?

Because of restrictions on transiting BC waters, there is no Race to Alaska this year. Instead there is a 360 mile race around Puget Sound. Here's the link: https://nwmaritime.org/wa360-daily-updates/

Several times a week I walk to the waterfront a couple miles from my home. Local boat builder Sam Devlin uses moorage space at a marina/brokerage I pass on my usual route. Quite often there are 3 or 4 or his boats tied up. This morning a boat Sam designed and built for himself as a working...

We were lucky enough to spend a week and a half on the Mediterranean Coast of France. As chance would have it, our trip coincided with the 2018 Monaco Yacht Show. We encountered mind-boggling displays of wealth. Lots of ideas for that "next boat" when your C-Dory starts feeling a little...

We’ve sold our NORO LIM. When we bought the boat, we had planned to concentrate on using it for 10 years. Well, eight and a half years later, our circumstances and the unexpected appearance of just the right buyer collided to produce a sale. It was a very quick and extremely pleasant...

We went early this year (left Olympia May 13th). We had very good weather with only a day or two of rain. On the way north, we missed a big blow near Prince Rupert by hiding out in Kitimat for a couple of days. Coming south we let the Straits of Georgia talk us into delaying a crossing to...

There is a ”feature” in my boat’s wiring that has bugged me since the electronics were installed. Everything works great, but this one thing just seems wrong. Here’s the deal: I have Furuno electronics, including a BBFF1 sounder black box and a PG500 heading sensor. They are in some...

I finally got around to posting some pictures from our trip north this summer. We were on the water mid-June to mid-July, and boated from Olympia to Petersburg, Alaska and back. We had one relatively minor equipment problem. We lost reverse in the port engine. It turned out to be the...

Next week I will be boating from Olympia to Bellingham. I'm quite familiar with most of the water, but I have a question regarding Camano Island. Is it possible/advisable to go the "back way" east of the island through Davis Slough at a high tide (or something less)? If so, does it save any...

I have two new (less than 50 hours) props on my Yamaha F50's. The port side is wearing badly, but the starboard looks brand new. There is no apparent difference in performance between the two - no vibration or slippage that I can detect. Cursory examination reveals no obvious defect in the...

I just bought a new sealed LED all-around white anchor/navigation light. It will replace the badly corroded non-LED light that came with the boat. I have a question about fusing a mix of LED and non-LED lights on the same circuit. The all-around light is controlled by a rocker switch that...

On our last trip, the masthead/anchor light stalk fell off our radar arch. The stalk holds the white combination anchor/running light and one of our GPS antennas. The arch and stalk are stainless steel. The weld connecting the two completely failed. We had the good fortune to be in the...